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Science Past from the issue of August 27, 1960
CAT PHOBIA TREATMENT — [A] patient was cured of cat phobia by forcing herself to handle velvet until she got used to it. The patient, a 37-year-old married woman … had had a fear of cats as long as she could remember…. The therapist began … [with] what she felt was the least objectionable idea […]
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Book Review: The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains by Nicholas Carr
Review by Rachel Zelkowitz.
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Book Review: Climatopolis by Matthew E. Kahn
Review by Matt Crenson.
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101Things Everyone Should Know About Math by Marc Zev, Kevin B. Segal and Nathan Levy
Simple questions and answers teach math concepts and problem-solving skills. For kids age 10 to 14. 101THINGS EVERYONE SHOULD KNOW ABOUT MATH BY MARC ZEV, KEVIN B. SEGAL AND NATHAN LEVY Science, Naturally!, 2010, 208 p., $9.95.
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The Matchbox That Ate a Forty-Ton Truck by Marcus Chown
A cosmology writer puts basic physics principles in an everyday context. THE MATCHBOX THAT ATE A FORTY-TON TRUCK BY MARCUS CHOWN Faber and Faber, 2010, 269 p., $25.
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Brilliant: The Evolution of Artificial Light by Jane Brox
The history of lighting is a microcosm of scientific and technological advances since the Stone Age. BRILLIANT: THE EVOLUTION OF ARTIFICIAL LIGHT BY JANE BROX Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2010, 368 p., $25.
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The Smart Swarm by Peter Miller
The behavior of animal swarms, schools and colonies holds lessons for technology and design. THE SMART SWARM BY PETER MILLER Avery Press, 2010, 336 p., $20.
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Fixing the Sky: The Checkered History of Weather and Climate Control by James Rodger Fleming
Humans have long tried — and mostly failed — to engineer weather and climate, a historian of science shows. FIXING THE SKY: THE CHECKERED HISTORY OF WEATHER AND CLIMATE CONTROL BY JAMES RODGER FLEMING Columbia Univ. Press, 2010, 344 p., $27.95.
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Letters
Misunderstood males? I grew up on a farm, and it was not uncommon for male horses, male goats and even male deer to let out a snort whenever anxiety surfaced in them — whether it be from a predator in the area, the removal of food from their eating area or the wandering off of […]
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Treat science right and it could help save the world
Harold Kroto, who shared the 1996 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the discovery of buckminsterfullerene (the molecules commonly known as buckyballs), is a chemist at Florida State University in Tallahassee. His research interests extend from the microworld of nanoparticles to the chemistry of interstellar space. He also campaigns for a new vision of science education, […]
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Twinkle, twinkle, little dot
A faint object was once thought to be the first extrasolar planet to be photographed. Then it wasn’t. But now it may go down in the history books after all.
